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...This experimental literary novel seeks to probe the mind of Kenyon, an isolated invalid in her home, as she goes through morphine induced sleep and lucid wakefulness, and in both seeking meaning for her life and to be reconciled to her estranged marriage...

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...--Thucydides Part I Koan 0 There was tranquility to be had in a long morphine induced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the idealized re... ...o the wheelchair and mist her fern; and as she did so, she would think of morphine as another type of mist—not of water, but of effacing liquidity. I... ...er an awakened state was anything more than a slightly palpable dream, the morphine that she took for her scoliosis diminished the reality of seeming... ...e longer than her on-and-off spasms of sleep usually allowed. But now the morphine was carrying her away on its tide again, into its effacing mists ... ...om a congenital anomaly; a blotched surgery on the spinal cord and these morphine injections inducing a strange and deep sleep) but she did know th... ... to geriatric pain, she knew that he, Lothario, had spiked her drink with morphine--she whose boyfriend was still working at the convenience store. ... ...uld sell off a kidney. Breathing hard and loud as a panting dog—need the morphine; need the toilet if I can get up. Pain: that same theme! So sick... ...n why wouldn’t it? It is in having felt such acute pain that I took the Morphine last night; and it is in sleeping so long and so soundly that I am... ...: scoliosis specimen exhibit 100,000,000-z-nothing.To take or not to take morphine--that is the insoluble question, the repeated question-- whether t...

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A Selection of Poems from his complete works, in verse translation, including Morphine, Der Scheidende, Der Asra, and lyrics from the Buch der Lieder.

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...Gedächtnisfeier’ Gedichte 1853 Und 1854: Zum Lazarus: ‘Einst sah ich viele’ Aus Der Matratzengruft: ‘Mein Tag war heiter’ Aus Der Matratzengruft: ‘Morphine’ Aus Der Matratzengruft: ‘Der Scheidende’ Index of First Lines...

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...ither. She didn’t want to go to the hospital, but knew that she had better. She didn’t look good, and she was in a lot of pain. “Did you take some morphine?” I asked her. “Yeah, but it’s not helping.” ...

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...ote, a British politician, and John Loder, a man down on his luck meet by accident one night during one of London’s worst fogs. Chilcote, addicted to morphine, needs to escape his political responsibilities and presents an offer to Loder to exchange places occasionally. Loder, reluctant at first, finally accepts the proposal and finds he fits into Chilcote’s role – perhaps...

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...o be both a powerful anti-depressant and an aphrodisiac. He recommended it to treat morphine addiction in his tome, “On Coca”, published in 1884. He...

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...able unit to use when he went to treatments. As he in- creased the dose of morphine, he vomited often and his skin grew itchy. He was painfully thin. ...

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... contacted by one of your colleagues." Brand's words trailed off. The drip of morphine from the plastic tube inserted at the wrist began to take eff...

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...citate‘ order? Do I ask a doctor to give her more than the normal dose of morphine? Do I leave her to the hospital‘s care, letting it absorb the cost...

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... Whose betrayal of me I had concealed By marrying the old man. Then I took morphine and sat down to read. Across the blackness that came over my eyes ...

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... went her rounds at night: he was after brandy. Others were insatiable for morphine or opium. A chief woman had her foot amputated under chloroform. “...

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...The most terrible drugs! I come back. Find ladies. High so- cial position. Morphine-maniacs. Others. Reckless use of the most dangerous expedients…. C...

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...luntly dismissed from the poop, only to find Mugridge sleeping soundly from the morphine I had given him. I made no haste to return on deck, and when I...

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...the faint- est conception of. I believe it’s worse than liquor, worse than morphine. Once you get into it, it grips you and draws you and draws you, a...

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...to hurry. And don’t try to see him. I’ve had the doctor give him a shot of morphine, so he’ll sleep.” It seemed somehow wicked to return to the office...

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... course—this noise and these exhibitions; so the doc tors tried to give him morphine to quiet him. But, in his mind or out of it, he would not take i...

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...ou? VOITSKI. I took nothing from you. ASTROFF. You took a little bottle of morphine out of my medicine-case. [A pause] Listen! If you are positively d... ...n end to yourself, go into the woods and shoot yourself there. Give up the morphine, or there will be a lot of talk and guesswork; people will think I... ...ave me alone. ASTROFF. [To SONIA] Sonia, your uncle has stolen a bottle of morphine out of my medicine-case and won’t give it up. Tell him that his be... ...ise. I haven’t time, I must be going. SONIA. Uncle Vanya, did you take the morphine? 44 Uncle Vanya ASTROFF. Yes, he took it. [A pause] I am absolute...

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... He slept less and less. He was given opium and hypodermic in jections of morphine, but this did not relieve him. The dull depres sion he experien... ...eforehand that with others present it would be still worse. “Another dose of morphine—to lose con sciousness. I will tell him, the doctor, that he mu...

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...d. Drive me mad!” she repeated. “When I think of it, I can’t sleep without morphine. But never mind. Let us talk quietly. They tell me, divorce. In th... ...into it several drops of a medicine, of which the principal ingredient was morphine. After drink- ing it off and sitting still a little while, she wen... ...ld she keep him. And so, just as before, only by occupation in the day, by morphine at night, could she stifle the fearful thought of what would be if... ... ence of Princess Varvara, who complained to him that Anna had been taking morphine in his absence. “What am I to do? I couldn’t sleep.... My thoughts...

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... pointing to the hangings. “My God, my God! when will it end? Give me some morphine. Doc- tor, give me some morphine! Oh, my God, my God!” And she tos...

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...a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunk- ard, and of a smoker. “Just as the victim of th... ...rphine habit, of a drunk- ard, and of a smoker. “Just as the victim of the morphine habit, the drunk- ard, the smoker, is no longer a normal man, so t... ...al forever. He is a voluptuary. Just as the drunkard and the victim of the morphine habit may be recognized by their face and manner, so we may recog-...

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...bt it derived additional force 191 V olume Three from the habitual use of morphine, which he swallowed in great quantity, and without which he would ... ...n lost all idea of the direction in which I journeyed. In the meantime the morphine had its customary 192 Poe in Five V olumes effect—that of enduing...

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...d, pointing to the hangings. “My God, my God! when will it end? Give me some morphine. Doctor, give me some morphine! Oh, my God, my God!” And she tos... ...mad. Drive me mad!” she repeated. “When I think of it, I can’t sleep without morphine. But never mind. Let us talk quietly. They tell me, divorce. In ... ...d into it several drops of a medicine, of which the principal ingredient was morphine. After drinking it off and sitting still a little while, she wen... ...ould she keep him. And so, just as before, only by occupation in the day, by morphine at night, could she stifle the fearful thought of what would be i... ...resence of Princess Varvara, who complained to him that Anna had been taking morphine in his absence. Part VI — Chapter 32 631 “What am I to do? I co... ...mily, writing, reading—but it’s all nothing but a sham, it’s all the same as morphine. He ought to feel for me,” she said, feeling tears of self pity ...

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...ll again, poor fellow, looks very ill too, only sleeps at night because of morphine; and we do not know what ails him, only fear it to be canker of th...

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...s, I am cut by bitter and angry hail, I lose my breath, Steep’d amid honey’d morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death, At length let up again...

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...xperiences we have the same criti- cal point to overcome. A drunkard, or a morphine or cocaine maniac, offers himself to be cured. He appeals to the d...